A tosher is someone who scavenges in the sewers, especially in London during the Victorian period. This activity began around the time of the construction of the London sewerage system, designed by Joseph Bazalgette.
The toshers decided to cut out the middle man and it was a common sight in 19th Century Wapping for whole families to whip off a manhole cover and go down into the sewers, where they would find rich pickings.
As most toshers would reek of the sewers, they were not popular with the neighbours. The word tosher was also used to describe the thieves who stripped valuable copper from the hulls of ships moored along the Thames.

I am not sure what things of value people found in the London sewers. I imagine the invention of the flush toilet was a boon to the toshing business.

The word has modern usage in my neighborhood. A tosher is a person who scavenges through dumpsters and trash cans, looking for old stuff to sell to antique dealers. The work is not very lucrative.

Originally posted by LostBaby
My beloved is perfect. He is strong, smart, well read, can & will do anything, tender, and totally adores me. The only thing that could make him better is if he was freak'n wealthy beyond words.

On the floor of a small room near the city wall, they found the source of the many fragments of wisdom this civilization had left the world.http://bronzeageworks.blogspot.com/

Anybody who writes fantasy and has read Eddings probably either has used it, or seriously considered it. Mandorallen is hard to resist borrowing from.

Quote:

I knew I was trapped, so I put on my best Mandorallen lofty nobility and responded, “Surely it doth weigh heavily upon mine own heart to consider the peril that a woman wouldst face alone upon the long, harsh journey to fair Kol, and I cannot in good conscience allow this to come to pass so long as I do possess the strength to lift mine sword, your Majesty. I do vouchsafe that the fair lady shall meet no misfortune so long as she doth travel at my side, though the foulest of monsters and creatures of the dark do beset us in our grand journey to the safe environs of fair Kol.”

Truly, hul gil is a name not a word, but I found it so interesting I felt compelled to include it, against my own limits, so feel free to add any odd words to the mix.

Back to the thread; ne'er-do-well - an idle worthless person

Hul gil as you previously described it is a word because Sumerian is an agglutanative language which formed words through the combination of other smaller words.

Another good example is En-hedu-ana which is variously translated as ladyornament of Ana or more practically as high pristess of Ana

En-hedu-ana herself can be accurately dated to 2285 BCE because she was the daughter of the Akkadian King Sargon. She is also the first author ever whose name we know, her best known work being the nin-me-sara (hymns to the goddess Innana)

Yes, patina is used in the antique market. I was thinking of it for a vampire-like description; His skin was a pale patina color, imperceptibly green and yet translucent at the same time.

How about;

patronymic - a name derived from the father's last name with the addition of a suffix, like John Jacob Astor, the early American opium smuggler, who called his mansion, "Astoria". The Astors were from Waldorf, Germany, of course.

There's also...

teknonym

...a name derived from the child, rather than the parent. In some cultures, a person isn't considered an adult until they have a child, and so the teknonym becomes the sign of full civil status. In Western societies, we commonly use teknonyms when we're very young: notice how pre-schoolers identify their friends parents as "Susan's Dad" or "Jimmy's Mom."

teknonym - thanks for this one. I have been Gabe's Mom, Ben's Mom, Julia's Mom and Nick's Mom over the years and still laugh when I meet these grown friends on the street and they call me by these names. Will I ever be Glenna, again, I wonder?

Hul gil as you previously described it is a word because Sumerian is an agglutanative language which formed words through the combination of other smaller words.

Another good example is En-hedu-ana which is variously translated as ladyornament of Ana or more practically as high pristess of Ana

En-hedu-ana herself can be accurately dated to 2285 BCE because she was the daughter of the Akkadian King Sargon. She is also the first author ever whose name we know, her best known work being the nin-me-sara (hymns to the goddess Innana)

And I would be delighted to be Innana's Dumuzi, "growing like lettuce by the river" and filling her "wondrous vulva" with my "bull milk."
It's little wonder that Enki gave her all the gifts, including knowledge and wisdom.

pedant - 1. a person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view; 2. a person who rates academic learning or technical knowledge above everything, hence pedantic.

So pedagogy in UK English is an abusive term for the science of teaching that ignores the real practice in classroom situations. A pedagogue would be a bad teacher.

sub∑cu∑ta∑ne∑ous [suhb-kyoo-tey-nee-uhs]
adjective1. situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
2. performed or introduced under the skin, as an injection by a syringe.
3. living below the several layers of the skin, as certain parasites.